Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

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  • Author: Rod Ellis
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780194421591
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 404

This book explores the relationship between research, teaching, and tasks, and seeks to clarify the issues raised by recent work in this field. The book shows how research and task-based teaching can mutually inform each other and illuminate the areas of task-based course design, methodology, and assessment. The author brings an accessible style and broad scope to an area of contemporary importance to both SLA and language pedagogy.


Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' Perspective

Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' Perspective

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  • Author: Martin East
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027281823
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 259

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is being encouraged as part of a major overhaul of the entire school languages curriculum in New Zealand. However, teachers often struggle with understanding what TBLT is, and how to make TBLT work in classrooms. Using the stories that emerged from a series of interviews with teachers (the curriculum implementers) and with advisors (the curriculum leaders), this book highlights the possibilities for TBLT innovation in schools. It also identifies the constraints, and proposes how these might be addressed. The result is a book that, whilst rooted in a particular local context, provides a valuable sourcebook of teacher stories that have relevance for a wide range of people working in a diverse range of contexts. This book will be of genuine interest to all those who wish to understand more about TBLT innovation, and the opportunities and challenges it brings.


Task-Based Language Teaching

Task-Based Language Teaching

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  • Author: David Nunan
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521840171
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 17

"A comprehensively revised edition of Designing tasks for the communicative classroom"--Cover.


Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts

Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts

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  • Author: Ali Shehadeh
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027207232
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being developed and researched in diverse educational contexts, particularly where English is not the dominant language. By including contributions from settings as varied as Japan, China, Korea, Venezuela, Turkey, Spain, and France, this collection of 13 studies provides strong indications that the research and implementation of TBLT in EFL settings is both on the rise and interestingly diverse, not least because it must respond to the distinct contexts, constraints, and possibilities of foreign language learning. The book will be of interest to SLA researchers and students in applied linguistics and TESOL. It will also be of value to course designers and language teachers who come from a broad range of formal and informal educational settings encompassing a wide range of ages and types of language learners.


Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching

Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching

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  • Author: Rosemary Erlam
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027258163
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 294

This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account of how teachers learn about, design and evaluate tasks, after being introduced to TBLT during an in-service programme. The authors then go into classrooms to explore ways in which teachers continue to use tasks, as part of their regular ongoing classroom language programmes, following their in-service education. The book documents how the teachers use tasks to open up opportunities for language learning for students and investigates how teachers understand and position tasks and TBLT as relevant and of value to their teaching contexts. The challenges that teachers face in incorporating TBLT into their practice are also explored. The book suggests how the use of the task as a pedagogic tool may contribute to ongoing understanding about TBLT.


Task-Based Language Learning

Task-Based Language Learning

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  • Author: Peter Robinson
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1444350234
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 233

This volume contains papers addressing issues in task-based research into second language learning which are essential to informed pedagogic decision-making about how best to achieve this aim. These issues include research into the design characteristics of pedagogic tasks that promote the accuracy, fluency and complexity of learner language; the role of individual differences in the motivational and other cognitive variables that demands made by pedagogic tasks draw on; the extent to which tasks, and teacher interventions during task performance, promote the quantity and quality of interaction that facilitate L2 learning; and the generalizability of task-based research in laboratory contexts to classroom settings.


Task-based Language Learning and Teaching. Improvement with the Help of Webquests?

Task-based Language Learning and Teaching. Improvement with the Help of Webquests?

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  • Author: David Knobelspies
  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag
  • ISBN: 3346571548
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 13

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,5, , course: Task-based Language Learning and Teaching, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the question, if Webquests do help to improve the Communicative Language Learning Process and Taskbased-Language-Learning in general? Even though research confirms, language learning or rather task-based language learning is part of the communicative approach to language learning, there is still frequently believed in approaches that regard language learning as a linear process. Within the scope of such linear processes in terms of language learning, several language items are meant to be put together. In contrast to this approach, task-based approaches recognize language learning as imponderable or rather hardly predictable.


Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching

Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching

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  • Author: Nicole Jan
  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag
  • ISBN: 3668892709
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 11

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,6, University of Frankfurt (Main) (England and American Studies - Didactics Department), course: Integrating Skills and Task-Based Language Learning, language: English, abstract: In the following term paper, I would like to give a brief overview about task-based learning in general and the way it provides effective language learning with the help of motivational tasks in order to show that in-class language practice does not necessarily have to be an artificial situation. In modern second language teaching the role of task-based learning has become a very important topic. Due to the fact that many exercises in EFL classrooms have no clear connection to real world situations, researchers and modern English teachers try to put emphasis on tasks which help learners to use the target language effectively in different situations outside the classroom. This term paper has its focus on the implementation of task-based learning and teaching in EFL classrooms and the way task-based activities can be designed. Based on the fact that motivation plays an important role in language learning, it is also necessary to concentrate on possibilities to make the English language attractive (also for young learners) and to help them realizing that through task-based learning activities they can learn something which can be transferred to real life situations. Since I did not know a lot about task-based language learning (and teaching), I was looking forward to being engaged in this topic. The most interesting and also surprising aspect that I learned was that there are so many advantages of TBL. First of all, TBL allows students to be free of language control because they use all their language resources rather than just practicing one preselected item. Furthermore, a natural context is developed from the students’ experiences with the language that is personalized and relevant to them. Another essential advantage is the more varied exposure to language with TBL since they will be exposed to a whole range of lexical phrases, collocations and patterns as well as language forms. An important aspect of TBL is that the language explored arises from the students’ needs. It is no more the decision made by the teacher or the coursebook. Lastly, the most important advantage in my opinion is the strong communicative approach because students spend a lot of time communicating. I am sure that TBL is enjoyable and motivating for students as well as for teachers.


Tasks in Action

Tasks in Action

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  • Author: Kris Van den Branden
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1443815241
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been gaining momentum around the world during the past twenty years. However, particularly lacking in the body of available publications on TBLT is empirical evidence of the actual activity, interaction and learning processes that tasks give rise to in real classrooms. This volume compiles a number of studies that describe what learners and teachers, in various educational contexts, actually do when they are asked to perform tasks as part of their regular classroom activity. As such, the volume provides valuable new insights into the implementation of task-based language teaching and vividly illustrates how classroom practice can inform future theory-building and research on TBLT. All the chapters in this book are based on papers that were presented during the first International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, which was organised in Leuven in September 2005 by the Centre for Language and Education of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.


Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education

Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education

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  • Author: Betty Lou Leaver
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • ISBN: 9781589014190
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 356

Task-based language instruction has proven to be highly effective, but surprisingly underutilized. Theory can only go so far and hands-on experience can greatly speed and enhance the learning of a second language. Nineteen talented instructors who have successfully implemented task-based programs explain the principles behind the programs, discuss how problems were resolved, and share details on class activities and program design. Each chapter takes the reader through the different stages in designing and setting up such programs, adjusting them, and appraising and testing them in normal classroom conditions. This book covers TBI syllabus and program design and is based on actual classroom experience. Any one of the courses or programs discussed can serve as models for others. Many of the contributors are highly respected practitioners who are presenting their programs for the first time, while others are regular participants in today's ongoing dialogue about teaching methods. Full of concrete, adaptable models of task-based language teaching drawn from a number of countries and eleven different languages—including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Korean, Spanish, and Ukrainian—Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education presents proven, real-world, practical courses and programs; and includes web-based activities. It demonstrates useful and practical ways to engage students far beyond what can be learned from reading textbook dialogue. TBI involves the student directly with the language being taught via cognitively engaging activities that reflect authentic and purposeful use of language, resulting in language-learning experiences that are pleasurable and effective. For all instructors seeking to help their learners enhance their understanding and grasp of the foreign language they are learning, Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education is a rich and rewarding hands-on guide to effective and transformative learning.